Personal Injury Practice

6th Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-78043-195-6
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 664 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 992 g

Personal Injury Practice is a step-by-step guide to personal injury litigation practice written by a highly respected team of authors. It provides everything needed to conduct efficient and successful PI litigation for claimants and sets out authoritative guidance at every stage of proceedings from first interview with a client to the end of an appeal.

Written in a unique case management-led style, it approaches the subject with best practice always at the fore. Helpful specimen letters and precedents are included in the text.

The new edition covers the numerous developments in the field of PI and includes new chapters on:

Accidents abroad
Group actions
The new computer portal system for claims up to £25,000

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Personal Injury Law online service.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buchan, Andrew

Kennedy, Jenny

Woolf KC, Eliot

Woolf, Eliot

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Preparation
Chapter 1 Case management: in house

Chapter 2 Case management: by the courts

Chapter 3 Portal claims

Chapter 4 Small claims track

Chapter 5 Fast track and the protocols

Chapter 6 Multi track

Chapter 7 Funding

Chapter 8 The initial interview and the claimant's proof

Chapter 9 Urgent action

Chapter 10 Preliminary correspondence and the letter of claim

Chapter 11 Collecting evidence

Chapter 12 Evidence: non expert evidence on liability and quantum

Chapter 13 Evidence: expert evidence on liability and quantum

Chapter 14 Negotiations and offers

Part II Issue to trial
Chapter 15 Alternative dispute resolution

Chapter 16 Issue and service

Chapter 17 Claimant's statement of case

Chapter 18 The defence, Part 18 requests for further information, connected proceedings, judgment in default, summary judgment and admissions

Chapter 19 Applications

Chapter 20 Non-compliance with court orders
Chapter 21 Disclosure and inspection

Chapter 22 Review of evidence

Chapter 23 Preparing for trial

Chapter 24 The trial

Chapter 25 Costs

Chapter 26 Handling the award

Chapter 27 Appeals

Part III Special problems
Chapter 28 Limitation of actions

Chapter 29 Fatal accidents

Chapter 30 Claimants under a legal disability

Chapter 31 Disease cases

Chapter 32 Claims for injuries caused by stress at work

Chapter 33 Liability for products and premises

Chapter 34 Motor drivers and owners

Chapter 35 Criminal injuries

Part IV Appendices
Appendix A Proofs and witness statements

Appendix B Specimen correspondence

Appendix C Specimen schedules of special damages

Appendix D Useful addresses

Appendix E Fixed recoverable costs: fast track claims

Appendix F Pre-action protocol for low value personal injury claims in road traffic accidents from 31 July 2013

Appendix G Pre-action protocol for low value personal injury (employers' liability and public liability) claims

Appendix H Cost case conference direction

Über Autor(innen)

Woolf KC, Eliot
Eliot Woolf specialises exclusively in the fields of personal injury (domestic and international) and clinical negligence. His personal injury work has a focus on spinal injury claims, military claims and foreign accident/ group illness claims. His clinical negligence practice is wide ranging, representing both claimants and defendants. He is listed in the main directories as a leading silk in the fields of Clinical Negligence, Personal injury and Travel Law.

Buchan, Andrew
Andrew Buchan is a clinical negligence and personal injury specialist, with experience of a wide range of clinical negligence claims from high value brain injury, cerebral palsy and missed spinal injury claims, to claims including ambulance delays, failure to diagnose meningitis, failure to diagnose leukaemia and other types of cancer, and dental negligence claims. His experience in personal injury covers road traffic claims, including severe spinal injury claims, workplace claims and disease claims, including fatal accident claims, work related upper limb disorder claims, manual handling claims, work equipment claims, working at height claims and claims for harassment and occupational stress.

Kennedy, Jenny
Jenny Kennedy is a Partner in the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence department at Anthony Gold Solicitors. She specialises in complex and serious head and spinal injury claims.

The 2016 edition of Chambers ranks her as a "star individual", one of just three in the field of personal injury in London. This independent guide to the legal profession describes her as "extremely thorough and dedicated to her clients" for whom "she always goes the extra mile". She fights "tooth and nail" for her clients and one client comments how "she always made herself available and made sense of complex issues". The Legal 500 2015 ranks her as a "leading individual", who describe her as "exceptional".

Jenny is on the joint editorial board of Kemp & Kemp: Personal Injury Law, Practice and Procedure. She is co-author of Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims and she is also a co-author of Personal Injury Practice, both published by Bloomsbury Professional.

Andrew Buchan, barrister at Cloisters, Jenny Kennedy, partner at Anthony Gold and Eliot Woolf, barrister at Outer Temple Chambers, all of whom are well known experts in their field. This combination of counsel and practising partner ensure that the work covers the needs of both sides of the profession.